Monkey man John-Paul Hussey returns with everybody

John Bailey

Performer John-Paul Hussey's one-man shows have attained a kind of cult following over the years, employing some arcane alchemy to transmute such disparate elements as autobiography, clowning, surrealism and poetry into something glimmering. It's been a while since his acclaimed Monkey Trilogy graced Melbourne stages, but a new solo work (his seventh) is making its Melbourne debut with a quiet grace that borders on the secretive. Here Comes Everybody promises an eccentric multi-narrative comedy with a cavalcade of characters including vicious Shetland ponies, a sensitive martial arts instructor, drug dealers, ticket inspectors and horny elves. The show opens June 5 at the Mechanics Institute in Brunswick.trybooking.com/EOBH